Andrew Karellas, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Karellas joined the Department of Medical Imaging as the director of biomedical imaging innovation and clinical translation in Next-Gen CT and vice chair of faculty development. He holds patents for quantitative radiographic imaging systems and digital and tomosynthesis imaging and is the recipient of several research support grants from NIH.

Prior to arriving in Arizona, Dr. Karellas was a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, a professor of radiology, hematology and oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and acting vice-chair for research at the Department of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Degree(s)

  • PhD: UCLA, Medical Physics
Board Certifications
American Board of Radiology, Diagnostic Radiological Physics
Honors and Awards
Fellow, American College of Radiology, 2012
Fellow, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2001
Dedicated Service Recognition Award as Deputy Editor for Medical Physics
Lifetime Achievement Award, Upstate New York Association of Physicists in Medicine
Lifetime Service Award, American Board of Radiology
SPIE Senior Member
Member of Sigma Xi, 1984